Due to financial hardships and a sudden change in ownership, Team One Food Store and the Citgo gas station on South Broad Street closed Monday, leaving more than 14 workers unemployed. Mick Ritter, owner of Team One Food Store since he founded it in 1990, said in an interview with The Collegian that he could...
Category: City of Hillsdale
Divine inspiration drives members of Jonesville club to compose music for area churches
After a restless night in January, June Bjorge had the words of an 1830s poem on her mind. The poem was by Sandord Tracy, the great-great-uncle of a friend, and, after reading the verses about finding rest, the Adrian resident said she knew she needed to turn it into a song. On that January...
Crossroads Farm plans two new locations in Michigan, one in Ohio
Hillsdale’s Crossroads Farm is working to expand its ministry of “loving the rural teen” to three additional locations through their planting program. The program will extend to Chippewa County in the Upper Peninsula, Kalkaska County, and Harrison County in Ohio, according to Crossroads Co-Founder and Director Dawn Routledge. Crossroads Farm, founded nearly 18 years...
Winona statue sent to bronze caster in Cleveland
The statue of Winona, the daughter of Potawatomi chief Baw Beese, has been sent to the foundry for bronze casting. The final sculpture will be unveiled in Mrs. Stock’s Park this June. Until then, children in the community will have an opportunity to learn about Hillsdale’s history and the Winona statue through a coloring page...
Hillsdale Hospital named one of the top 100 rural U.S. hospitals
Hillsdale Hospital was named one of the 100 top rural and community hospitals in the U.S. in Becker’s Hospital Review and received a $45,000 incumbent worker training grant from the state this past month. The Michigan Works Southeast grant will fund training for the Obstetrics unit on a new fetal monitoring system, training to update...




